Visiting Professor/Scholar
School of Social Sciences/Department of Social-Cultural Anthropology
KU LEUVEN, Belgium 2023
Seminars/Lectures: Tales from the Field

Department of History, Archeology & Management of Cultural Goods,
School of Humanities and Cultural Studies,
University of the Peloponnese, Greece 2009-2020
Courses & graduate seminars designed /taught:
• Time, Space and the Body: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• The Senses, Visual Culture, and the Ethnography of Everyday Life
• Ethnography and Cultural Management
• Design & Organization of Cultural Events
• Cultural-Historical Issues: Travel and Tourism
• Environment and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
[Excavating Space and Place/ Anthropology and Management of Cultural Goods/ Touch, Tactility, Haptics/ Physical Catastrophe and the Archaeology of the Present]

Founding Head, Progam on Everyday Life and Culture, University of the Peloponnese, 2011–2019

Officially invited member, UNESCO
National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage, Helllenic Ministry of Culture, 2012-2021

LeBoff Distinguished International Visiting Faculty Member, 2002, New York University
Sponsor: Department of Culture and Communication.
Lecture series on
The Senses and Media as Material Culture –Fieldwork Approaches.

Dublin Institute of Technology / New York University
Member of Advisory Faculty, 2007
Summer School, The Global City and Media Ethnography:
Practice-led Research and the Critical Ethnography of the Senses

Invited Visiting Associate Professor 1990 – 1992
Department of Philosophy and Social Studies & Department of Sociology University of Crete, Greece
Seminars designed and taught:
• Symbolic Dimensions of Social Practice
• Representing the Other
• Ritual, Power and the Body
• The Anthropology of Gender

Invited Visiting Assistant Professor 1989 – 1990
Graduate Department of Performance Studies,
New York University
Graduate seminars designed and taught:
• Women, Ritual and Power in the Mediterranean
• Women, Ritual and Development in Third World and
European Peripheries

Invited Visiting Assistant Professor 1989 – 1990
Joint appointment: Department of Anthropology & Department of Women’s Studies, Vassar College, New York
Seminars designed and taught:
• The Gender of Socio – Economic Development
• The Anthropology of Mourning and Bereavement
• The Anthropology of Gender
• Introduction to Cross Cultural Women’s Studies

Invited Temporary Advisor, 1994-1995
World Health Organization (W.H.O)
Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen

Advisor to the Minister 1994 – 1996
Hellenic Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece
Responsible for issues pertaining to mobile populations, sexually transmitted diseases and prevention in border areas, public health education, and international relations.

Invited Visiting Assistant Professor 1988 – 1989
Department of Anthropology, New York University
Graduate and Undergraduate Courses taught:
• Contemporary Dynamics of Social and Cultural Change
• Peoples of Europe
• Human Society and Culture

Invited Director 1996 – 1999
Department of Cultural Studies
Organization for Cultural Development
Municipality of Kalamata/ Ministry of Culture, Greece

National School of Public Health, Athens
Invited Visiting Professor 1995 – 1996
Seminars designed and taught:
• Health Communication Across Cultures
• Women and Health

Invited Lecturer and Research Associate 1983 – 1988
Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies &
Departments of Linguistics & Anthropology Queens College,
City University of New York
Courses designed and taught:
• Greek American Bilingualism and Anthropological Linguistics
• European Peripheries
• Modern Greek Culture and Civilization
• Symbolic, Mythic and Ritual Foundations of Ancient and Modern Greek Thought & Culture
• The Greek American Community: Social Problems of Greek Immigrants

Greek National Daily Newspaper TA NEA
Special weekend edition

Regular contributor 1999 – 2000

Editor, The Anthropological View and
Regular Contributor, 2005 – 2008
Hellenic Sociological Review, Athens: Papazissis Publishers